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Libraries organize joint reading project

The county teams with Hillsborough, Pinellas and Hernando to offer several space-themed activities.

The Pasco County Library system has announced a full list of activities in connection with this year's Tampa Bay-wide "One Book" reading project that has participants read the same book, then meet to discuss it.

The program started in Seattle five years ago and has spread to at least 36 states. This is the second year Pasco has held a "One Book" project and the first year it has joined Hillsborough, Pinellas and Hernando counties to form "One Bay One Book," with everyone reading the same book, Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff, the story of the astronauts in the Mercury space program.

Last year, Pasco readers read the John Steinbeck classic, Of Mice and Men.

Besides discussions, Pasco libraries have scheduled two dozen special activities, starting Tuesday with a talk by a speaker from Kennedy Space Center at the Regency Park branch library and winding up Nov. 19 with a "Teen Space Movie Night" at the Hugh Embry branch library in Dade City.

In between are a variety of events at all seven branch libraries.

Hudson Regional Library, 8012 Library Road, Hudson

1 p.m., Wednesday: Kennedy Space Center speaker, "Space Exploration"

6 p.m., Sept. 22, Oct. 6 and Nov. 18: Teen program, sci-fi movies

10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., Sept. 27: Youth program - Star Lab Portable Planetarium from the Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) for children K-fifth grade. Advance registration required.

7 p.m., Oct. 9: Discuss The Right Stuff

Noon, Oct. 18: View film The Right Stuff

7 p.m., Nov. 5: St. Petersburg Astronomy Club leads "Starry, Starry Night..."

Regency Park, 9701 Little Road, New Port Richey

7 p.m., Sept. 16: Kennedy Space Center speaker

1 p.m., Nov. 15: Teen program - sci-fi movie marathon

South Holiday, 4649 Mile Stretch Dr., Holiday

1 p.m., Thursday: Kennedy Space Center speaker

Noon, Sept. 20: Teen program - sci-fi films with popcorn

2 p.m. Oct. 16: Discuss The Right Stuff, led by Times editor Bill Stevens

Centennial Park, 5740 Moog Road, Holiday

Noon, Saturday: Teen program - "Space Flix Fest"

2 p.m., Oct. 18: Youth program - "International Space Station," talk by speaker from MOSI

New River, 34043 State Road 54, Zephyrhills

7 p.m., Thursday and Nov. 13: "Teen Space Movie Nights"

1 p.m., Sept. 24, Oct. 1, 8, 15, 22 and 29: Film, From the Earth to the Moon

11 a.m., Oct. 14: "International Space Station" talk by speaker from MOSI

1 p.m., Oct. 16: Discuss The Right Stuff

Hugh Embry, 14215 Fourth St., Dade City

4 p.m., Wednesday and Nov. 19: "Teen Space Movie Nights"

4 p.m., Oct. 7: "International Space Station" talk by speaker from MOSI

1 p.m., Oct. 14: Discuss The Right Stuff

1 p.m., Oct. 21: View film, Apollo 13

Land O'Lakes, 2818 Collier Parkway, Land O'Lakes

11 a.m., Oct. 4: "International Space Station" speaker from MOSI

7 p.m., Oct. 6: Discuss The Right Stuff, led by County Commissioner Pat Mulieri

7 p.m. Oct. 13: View Apollo 13